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'rouble is Serious
anger!! Live.
Is it true, for instance, that eharehes •
are almost invariably destroyed and,
important factories escape?
It is true. It is so obvious to a Can*
adian in England that it seems en-
canny until one knows the. reasons.
In London and other badly bombed
cities, it is obvious that most of the
damage was done by incendiary
bombs. They are small and light, I
brought parts 'of one home with me.
It 'is cylindrical, not over two inches
in .diameter and .about a foot long--'
something like a fat Roman candle.
The head is. flat„, not pointed like the
tip of a high explosive bomb. That
is the heavy end, The tail has fins
on it to keep the bomb upright as
it falls. Dropped from a height 4:if
10,000 feet or so, an incendiary bon)
will penetrate through a slate roof or
the fender of a car, leaving a small .
hole, It will not go through a brick
wall. The bomb ignites two minutes
# after it strikes and develops a flame
said to have a temperature of about
5,000 degrees A large bomber might
carry thousands of incendiaries and
drop them out literally by the ton.
Nowadays, the British know,now to
fight ,the incendiary bomb. Volunteer
fire watchers are always on the look-
out for bombs. They .have 'the simple
equipment to render bowls harmless
before they can develop heat,
But even yet, the 'churches are not
safe. The beautiful old buildings, de-
signed by Christopher Wren and other_
great architects, have slate roofs, In-
side the building is another false roof,
often of lead, The incendiary goes
through the slate, but hasn't force en-
ough to penetrate the second roof. Be-
fore it can 'be reached, it has exploded
and 'started a fire„ Sometimes, there
was an oak ceiling as No matter
how faithful the watchers at the
churches might be, it was impossible
to rip off the slates and the lead in
time to reach the bombs.
It wasn't that churches were delib-
erately attacked. Everything was at-
tacked. It was simply a matter of the
way the churches were built.
Factories Have Really' Escaped
The story of -the .factories and the
production of war material's is some-
thing else again, It : is literally true,
that many 'of the important. ones have
never been bombed. I saw a great arco
engine factory, in the ;Midlands, built
since the war started. It was undoubt-
edly the finest factory I ever saw. It
was built.by a large automobole comp-
any solely -for the production of radial
engines of 1,500 h.p. or so. It is sev,
oral miles from the nearest city Every
precaution has been taken to see that
a bomb dropping nearby won't affect
the people inside. If one 'makes a
I have been asked hundreds of direct hit, a series of blast walls will
questions about bomb damage. Per- minimize the damage. But there has
never been a direct lilt.
Twice I passed the original Hurri-
cane factory. This is an .older one and
still makes the famous fighting planes
spot where many a great debate has
taken place. 'Yet, strangely enough, the
rooms around it are almost untouched.,
St, Paul's and Westminister Abbey •
It seems impossible that St. Paul's
Cathedral should, have survived when
all the area behind it is bare and .
dreary, I visited 'the cathedral and
found only one large hole in the roof.
made by a' high explosive bomb that
shattered the altar beneath. Again it
was explained that'the roof structure
supplied the answer. The incendiaries
bounced. off the great dome and the
arched roof, Fire engines and fire
fighters are massed all the time in
the square in front of the cathedral.
If Westminister Abbey was hit, the
damage must .have been repaired, al-
though one portion was closed on the
Sunday afternoon I visited it.
Fleet street, with most of the daily
newspaper offices grouped together,
suffered much,,yet not one daily paper
ever missed a single edition. The ed-
itor of one Of Lord Beaverbrook's
papers told me that £75,000 had been
spent to protect the two buildings he
owns in that area, I saw the results
The .record of the newspapers is re-
markable, but- no more amazing than
the attitude of the people at large.
It is said that it was a great help to
morale when a householder came to
his front door after a night of terror,
and found both the daily paper and
the bottle of milk on the doorstep.
At Buckingham Palace, only one
small building has been hit, but the
iron fence is being removed to be used • to make munitions. Many stores on
Oxford and Regent streets have suf-
fered. Tenants in rich 'apartments in
the West End have lost everything
they owned just as thoroughly as the
poor in the dock. areas, though not
such a large proportion, perhaps.
It surprised me to find many Lon-
doners still sleeping in - air raid shel-
ters after four months of immunity
from bombing. I visited the great
"Underground" station at Piccadilly
Circus twice during my stay. Some
300 people were still sleeping there;
but they seemed to be mostly men
and women Who had been bombed out
of their hdmes and preferred the semi-
independence of this life rather than
being billeted with strangers. -
Coventry Has Suffered Most
It wasn't until I visited Coventry
that I realized how liad a concentrated
bombing can' be. Coventry was (and
is) an industrial city about the size
of Hamilton, Ontario. Twice the Ger-
mans concentrated the full .might of
their air force on Coventry in an at-
tempt to demonstrate just what they
could do, To some extent, they suc-
ceeded; but they did not stop pro-
duction to such an extent as they had
hoped, and they did not terrify the
people, They did not even kill as
many a's one would expect.
We drove front London to 'Coventry
one fine September morning. The
British Council supplied -us with cars
that had Canadian ensigns on. the
radiators. I admired the beautiful
English countryside and wondered at
the patience of the British farmers,
cutting their second crop of hay in
fields dotted with plane traps.
Coventry's city hall remains almost
unretekal on the border of acro,: of
ruins. The car in which I was riding
was tite last to drive tip to the door.] 1
curious crowd, mostly women witli
ora.-ket baskets, had gathered, As I
,'.;:copttd out, I heard someone ask:
"Who are they?" I answered: "Cau-
odious." The nearest woman„ tvith a
basket over her arm responded, to my
susprioe, with, "Cod bless Canada!"
later, I .understood. Mayor Mosloy
welcomed us in a room which had a
model tank and a large vestetable mar-
row on the table, symbols of greater
production. Mrs. Pearl Hyde, head of
the Women's Voluntary Services, told
me that many of the people of Cov-
entry were clothed in Canadian gar-
ments, and they had been fed for days
from fleets of mobile canteens,- dona-
ted to cities around by' various,rCan-
adian war funds, Canada ranks high
in the estimation of Coventry,
A few minutes later, I stood amid
the rubble in the ruins of Coventry
Cathedral. On one side stood Mrs.
Hyde and on the other, Captain S. A,.
Hector, Chief of Police, Both, I learn-
ed later, are members...of the Order of
the British Empire because of heroic
services performed,
Major Christie, of St. John, N. 13.,
moved through the rubble with the
Provost of the Cathedral and laid on
an improvised altar a wrcth which
the editors had brought from tendon.
My eyes were moist and I thought
the Chief wiped away a tear, Two days
later, Prime Minister Churchill visited
Coventry and asked about the wreath.
He thought. it a, splendid idea and. the
next. day, two more arrived to place
beside our own, one frOm Winston
oCIl ittl,rehill„ the other front Mrs, 'ate. h
The buildings in the heart of Cov-
entry are literally wiped out,- hi two
.great raids, one in November, 10110,
and the other it Apri1.14,000 -houses •
out of a total 'of 01,,O60 in Coventry
were damaged, "it .WaS beautiful,
moonlight night,* said mayor Meshy,
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Why British Churches
Are Burned While
Factory Buildings Escape
This is the fifth of a series of art-
icles about conditions in Great Britain
and other countries visited by a group
of Canadian newpaper editors. It was
written for the weekly newspapers of
Canada by their special gepresentative
on the delegation, ,Hugh Templin, of
the Fergus News-Record.
In a previous story, told some-
thing about the bomb damage' in Lon"-
don.The subject of bombing and its
results on the people of England is
too large to dismiss in a few sent-
ences. It is, or has been, the most
important feature of the war since
Dunkirk.
London has been seriously bobbed
The raids on the city began more
than a year ago and continued until
April or May, 10417 When daytime
bombing became too costly for the
Germans,, the enemy turned to night
bombing, which cannot be so effective
in hitting particular targets. Since
"Run Down For Years, Has Period
Health"
I was badly run down and terribly nervous.Mydiges-
tlott Watt Pear and I was alivays con-stipated. "Fruit-a-tives" soon made me better and there is nothing,ilke it for •.1 mar ngit vrnt7 t;toelul
,new pep and energy. After years of bad health "Fruit-a-tIVes" made me feel fine.
Mr. Roy llagncau,Chatham,Orst.
"Long Years of Suffering, Now Full
of Life"
For a long time I suffered frequent headaches and backaches.I could find norellef until I tried "Frult-a-
t: dyes". The pains
. . quently until in a came less fre-
t.t.;..... few Weeks, they stopped entirely. "Fruit-a-tives" really made me feel like a new woman.
Mrs. A. J. Schwartz, Galt, Out.
011•000.5.1.10.11m.01•0011a.aNleaa.
colattzezo-
which the R.C.A.F. uses, it was point-
ed cut to me by a ferry pilot, who
was going to the -ta.ctory to take a new
plane to a fighter station Above the
factory floated a group of barrage
balloons, an unusual sight away from
the large cities. I would have known
it was an imoortant factory Yet the
pilot iold me that the Germans had
never found it.
It sounds mystifying, Actually, it is
simple. The cartoonists love to show
1 a man or a building so camouflaged
I that it looks notierous, That is atom-
i ally what happen:;, At night, these
factories literally ettrittot he found.
Some of the Bomb Damage
It is imposaible to mention ninny of
the buildinoa that have been tinnin ; ud,
but I iniglit litA a few. Ity this time,
,the street~ hitt e all been repaired,
railways are in full Opthation, and
there is little or no sign of bomb
damage in the railway stations. The
docks, which haVe Suffered, are in
operation again.: Barges, drawn by
tugs, are et:on:int-lolly going up and
down the Thames at Westminister," I
saw a 'convoy going out the mouth of
the Thames 'one day that I visited the
East Coast. As I said before, all the
!bridges over the Thames escaped
damage.
On one of our first days in London,
the editors were conducted through
the Houses of Parliament by two in-
teresting humorous guides, Lord Snell,
representing the Hottse,of Lords, and
Sir Patrick Hanlon, from the House
of Commons. They took us even into
the basement rooms where Guy
FawkeS stored the gunpowder to blow
up Parliament .centuries ago, and into
the underground chapels where Crom-
well s tabled,his horses to show his
contempt for the institution of parlia-
ment. The chapels are lovely, There
is no longer any horsey smell.
Here and there, I saw the damage
done by bombs. In the great West-
minister Hall, where the bodies of the
kings lie in state, workmen were re-
pairing a broad hole in the roof where
a bomb, came through. tiglIten has
almost escaped, One Corner of the
clock tower and one face were' dam-
aged :but the clock still goes.
The worst damage is in the HOtise
of CenitiliniS chamber itself. It simply .
-does not ttiiSt any longer. There is.
no roof, and only a small pile of
rubble and twitted girders marks the "the most beautiful i think I ever saw
Huron County Council will meet
next week, The following are the
members and the municipality.
Ashfield, A. la, McDonald; (Dep.)
G, Prone.
Colborne, Wm. Thom.
Goderich Tp., Ben Rathwell.
Grey, Thos. Wilson; (Dep.) A.
Alexander.
Hay, Geo, Armstrong,
Howie k, J, Gamble., (Dep,)
Weir.
Hullett, J. Ferguson,
1V eRi1lop, N, R. Dorrence,
Morris, Franeis Dtmeati,
Stanley, Fred Watson.
Stephen, Along MeCatte; (Dep,)
Rey Rats,
Tuckersinith, P. H. Whitmore.
Turtiberry, Roland Grain.
tishorite, Percy Passmore.
Past litrawanosh, It Itedrattd,
West Thom Webster,
in my life."
A visit to Coventry now is depres-
sing. Here, it would seem, the Ger-
man Luftwaffe really succeeded
But they didn't, even though they
sent over 000 planes to bomb for 111:3
hours in the moonlight, and even
though they 'had immense luck, for
the large water main was broken by
high explosives and three lucky shot;
hit the canal brink and drained nway
the secondary water supply.
The buildiuss which made up 17'
besincss section are gone, and so ate
ninny of the hioal, c s. Tht: hospital atilt
the Cathedral and the Roman Catii
olic church are but shell,,
0110"4V,T1, only 1214 porsoni
1,illed in b,sth raids, and I saw, wit;T
my owe eyes the war Jactortes v•-en;.;
ti,ain at full apoetl.
That afternoon, to,fore we left to
-visit a otonoer station, a dainty y.
lady served tett to a dozen editors. 1
asked if she lived in. Coventry during
the raids. She did, She ayasn't in a
shelter either. It was her turn that
night to be on Air Raid Patrol, She
travelled through those streets with
flames and death all around and the
sky full of enemies, She was terrified,
she admitted, but she never thought
of :taking shelter. Anyway, she had no
home to go to that night: one of the
first bombs got it,
You can't defeat people like that.
1942 HURON
Roy E, Pierce Was Glad to Welcome
Members of His Battery Especially
the Irwin and the Hammond Boys
The following letter was received
by Lloyd Montgomery, President of
the Jolly Time Literary Society which
meets Friday evenings in Currie's
School, East Wawanosh.
December 5, 1041,
Somewhere in England.
bear members of the Jolly Time
HURON COUNCIL. Literary Society:
Perhaps you will be more than sur-
prised to hear from me but I have
been thinking about you often and am
dropping you a line to let you all
know that I am fine and hope this
may reach you all in the same manner,
When Friday night rolls around I say
to myself, "Well the Literary will be
meeting to-night but as I Cannot be
with you in person I'm with you in
mind." I am sending you my best
wishes for another term and that I
may be with you for the next, if Hit-
ler doesn't get inc before then.
I have been in a few different parts
of this country and like it line except
for the damp weather which 0111E8 at
this 'time of year,
I have finished my instructors
tOnrteS and ant ready 'to past it on
to our battery Welt has Seat arrived.
'it sure Was good to ace them all
again, especially Mil and Howard
/twin and the Rarnmond toys trent lit West End Itridite.taLWALXVItit
Clinton, Victor Falconer. Wingioun. They arc all in the very
Goderich, R. E. Turner; (Dep.) W. i best of ,-oirits and. anxious to get
Baker.
Seaford:, 3. FL Scott,
Wingham, j, J. Evans,
Blyth, W. H. Morritt,
P.rrtselti, It, 3, Dowman.
tiensall, It. E. S5eddick
"rhere will only be -three new 'ace.,
in the Conned this year, They are T.
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Having our factory equipped with the
most modern machinery for the eke
cation of high-class work, we ask you
to see the iargest display, of moral,
Menta of any retail factory In Ontario.
All finished by sand blast machines, We import all our granitea from the Old Country quarries direct, in the rough. You ran save local deal, ere, agents" and middlemen profits by teeing us.eh on£ n
going on the very important job which.
is ahead of us all. •
Those of you who have friends or
boys over here may find it difficult
to know just whast to send them, so
I'm going to v'' you a few hint(
s-weer:dins that point and hopo it mas
help to solve "'me of your problems.
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iv • to carry on
wit” t!,e'r work. We Lave also
frain the Red Cross
ghich wane v;.ry handy.
With tl,ese kw w.4kb. I will close
wishing. you all the very best of suc-
cesa and that you will carry on at
home doing your bit to vin back free-
dom and peace in our Empire.
I remain, a friend to you all.
A-31312 Gnr, Roy E. Pierce
100th L.A.A. Bty.,
4th L.A.A. Rege, R.C.A.
Canadian Army 'Overseas.
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Conditionsa In Great Britain
and Other Countries
, As seen and written by
Hugh Teniplin, Editor of the Fergus News-Record.
early summer, the night raids on Lon-
dein have stopped. Hitler no longer
has, the planes to spare; 'the R.A.F.
has command of the air Over Britain
and around the coasts; inland 'defences
are more, numerous and better organ-
ized Air raids continue, but they are
mostly along the eastern and southern
coasts.'
I 'think London looked much as I
had expected to find it. I did not ex-
pect tb see such-a large area east of
St. Paul's Catkedral so thoroughly
laid waste. In two other areas, both
south of the river, the damage struck
one as terrible; In both these cases,
it was little houses by the score that
had . suffered, which seemed to me
worse than old office buildings or an-
cient landmarks, That was simply be-
cause there must have been so much
loss of life: as 'for the houses them-
selves, some of them are better gone
and the buildings that. replace them
will improve these districts.
Why Churches Are Burned
haps 'other readers would like to know
a few of the answers.
APPROVED BY THE S. POI E
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rrus famous United States-built fighter plane was
1 first °rated by the French Armee de l'Air in 1940.
After the defeat of France the' order 'was taken over
by the R&M purchasing comrniaSion. Two hundred
aircraft were in process of construction at the time of
the fall of it
aircraft design was based On a plan to arm it
with a slow-firing 37intri. cannon. This armament has
been superseded by one 2Orntro cannon, Which has a
far higher rate of fire.• There, are two'0.50rorn. guns
Ott the fuselage And four 0.306 guns mottlited in the
Wings. The Airatobra's function Varies With its arma-
ment With the 3/rem, cannon it itt a ground strafer
and with the lighter Cannon it is tined as a tighter plane,
The Wing span is 84 feet and the 'length is 34 feet, two
inches. The height is nine feet, three and a quarter
Inches, and the wing area is 213 ,square feet. The
airserew diameter Is 10 feet, four and a quarter Inehes,
The power plant it an Allison width dried§ the 'plane
ICS speed Close to elOti